Hi,

We had a DDOS attack against old.lemmy.today which overloaded the entire server for about 20 minutes. I had to turn off old.lemmy.today temporarily and will look through logs and probably block more chinese ip ranges, since thats where it came from.

Always something to do. :) Keeping this as sticky for a while to inform everyone.

Edit: I added more ip blocks for Chinese networks and hopefully it will keep future bots away. Bringing up the old.lemmy.today user interface again…

Edit 2: Had to take it down again due to massive bot scraping. Currently down.

Edit 3: Decided to require login for old.lemmy.today instead of using anubis.

  • mehquestion@lemmy.world
    2·
    20 days ago

    Hi,

    I’m sorry to bother you again (I waited a week before messaging you), but I wanted to check in on something. Last weekend, I wasn’t able to access old.lemmy.world.

    Around Tuesday or so, I could access the site, but I can’t see any comments. I always get a 403 Forbidden error (with the words nginx at the bottom).

    Is this is a problem on my end that I can fix?

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
      1·
      20 days ago

      Yeah, we had to require an account to use the old.lemmy.today site. So just create an account and log in. :)